Kamlesh Pandey, the celebrated screenwriter of Rang De Basanti fame, on how Aamir uplifted the screenplay of Rang De Basanti with his performance and how Rang De Basanti was Aamir's best performance ever...
A few years back, at a conference, you mentioned that actors are worried more about their scene and don’t care about the entire screenplay. Could you tell us a bit about the script-pitching process and film narration process?
Many actors are not really film-literate. They are only concerned about their own role and performance and what they are doing in the film, not the what the film is all about. Which leads to the bad quality of films done by some of our major stars. Aamir Khan is one of the very few actors who looks at the entire screenplay. The skill with which he calibrated his own performance in Rang De Basanti to the level of the rest of the group went completely unnoticed by all the so-called film awards and film critics. I was the only one who told him that it his best performance ever because he understood that it is an ensemble story and he needed to mingle in the group. Any other mediocre actor in Aamir’s place would certainly have tried to stand out like a hero and ruined the film.
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This speaks volumes about Aamir's craft which is above all so-called awards given out by gossip magazines! Way to go, Aamir!
